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The “Milk Cliff” scares us as milk prices, supposedly, will skyrocket unless Farm Subsidies for privileged few producers are imposed . Farm Subsidies are, essentially, Republican ‘earmarks’ for their constituents.

James Bovard, in WSJ, lays out the problem. This is legislative dereliction of duty to the Forgotten Taxpayer, and the forgotten consumer, who is hammered with farm price subsidies. Will Republican Leadership sell us out again? Odds makers are giving odds they will. What do you think?

All tax cuts are not created equal; some are more equal than others in Obama’s State Capitalist word. To be accurate, though, it is a bipartisan Big Government State Capitalist Weltanschauung that infects the lawmakers in Washington and Harrisburg.

Billionaires benefit General Electric, inheritor of Enron’s wind energy program, German based Siemans, and, of course, Warren Buffet and his band of billionaire Big Government Socialists distributing wealth to themselves.

Wind subsidies, and other ‘renewable energy’ subsides,  a bipartisan assault on The Forgotten Taxpayer, lobbyists swarm to save privileged tax cuts for billion dollar businesses while the rest of us taxpayers are Forgotten as the bipartisan Fiscal Cliff and Obamacare, an avalanche of new taxes, crushes the rank and file taxpayers, who is us.

Bipartisan, another word for Big Government Tax Increase.

Tim Carney of the Washington Examiners eloquently informs us here.

Independence Hall Tea Party Association is having its 4th Annual Christmas Tea Party and After Party, Saturday, Jan. 5 from noon to 3 p.m. at the Independence Visitors Center Ballroom, 6th and Market streets, Philadelphia, Pa. 19106.

The tea party is free. The after-party which starts at 1 p.m. is $20 or $10 for college and high school students or $5 for children 13 and under.

For information call Teri Adams at 215-620-3055 or visit here.

On this 9th Day of Christmas we offer this column by Father Frank Pavone

Christmas is God in human language.

It is about a God who, in loving us, knows how to speak to us.

The Letter to the Hebrews says, “In the past God spoke to our forefathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son” (Heb. 1:1-2).

Christmas is revelation, manifestation, showing what was hidden. The Advent cry, “Open up, ye heavens from above!”, expresses the human need for meaning, and for the answers to basic questions: Why are we here? What is this life about? Where are we going? Is there life after death? How are we supposed to live? Does God exist, and if so, is he friend or foe? How does he want to be worshipped?

All the philosophers of history, though coming to certain conclusions correctly through human reason (which, though wounded by sin, is not destroyed) nevertheless could not reach the full answers to all these questions. God needed to speak, and he needed to speak in human language.

So the Son, who reveals the Father, has come, and Christmas celebrates that coming. Continuing that passage from Hebrews, which is used by the Church for Christmas Day Mass, we read, “The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being” (v. 3).

So, thanks to Christmas, we know who God is, what life is about, what God expects us to do, and what awaits us beyond the grave. We know how to obtain eternal life. We have found what the human heart has always sought. St. John writes, “After this I looked, and there before me was a door standing open in heaven” (Revelation 4:1). Christmas opens that door and shows us God in human language!

Christmas destroys the “tyranny of relativism,” the confusion of indifferentism, the idea that each person can create his or her own morality, or that one religion is as good as the next. As we welcome the birth of this child, we welcome the one who will preach the Sermon on the Mount, instruct us by parables, and establish his Church to continue making his teachings clear.

To welcome the Divine Child today is to welcome all that he will do and teach, the easy and the difficult, the comforting and the challenging, without considering ourselves authorized to pick and choose among those teachings.

It makes no sense to welcome the child but reject his teachings. It is inconsistent to prepare for and celebrate Christmas but refuse to accept the fullness of the Gospel that this child proclaimed.

That Gospel has taught from the beginning that life must be protected, including life in the womb. There can be no such thing as a “pro-choice Christian.” A rejection of even a single life is a rejection of Christ himself.

This Advent and Christmas, let us welcome Christ and all that he teaches, and all whom he loves.

By William W. Lawrence Sr

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By William W. Lawrence Sr

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Answer to yesterday’s puzzle: New Year’s is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls, and humbug resolutions, and we wish you to enjoy it with a looseness suited to the greatness of the occasion.
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Courtesy of Judy McGrane

“;Fiscal Cliff” put in a much better perspective.”;

Lesson # 1:

* U.S. Tax revenue: $2,170,000,000,000
* Fed budget: $3,820,000,000,000
* New debt: $ 1,650,000,000,000
* National debt: $14,271,000,000,000
* Recent budget cuts: $ 38,500,000,000

Let’s now remove 8 zeros and pretend it’s a household budget:

* Annual family income: $21,700
* Money the family spent: $38,200
* New debt on the credit card: $16,500
* Outstanding balance on the credit card: $142,710
* Total budget cuts so far: $38.50

Got It ??…….OK now,
Lesson # 2:
Here’s another way to look at the Debt Ceiling:

Let’s say, You come home from work and find
there has been a sewer backup in your neighborhood….
and your home has sewage all the way up to your ceilings.

What do you think you should do ……

Raise the ceilings, or remove the shit?

There are at least 67 people who were born in the 19th century who lived to see the arrival of the 21st. Two of them, Bessie Cooper and Dina Manfredini died this month on Dec. 4 and Dec. 17 respectively at the ages of 116 years, 100 days and 115 years, 257 days.

Courtesy Cathy Craddock

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